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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






2. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






3. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






4. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






5. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






6. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






7. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






8. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






9. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






10. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






11. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






12. Graphic display of schedule related information.






13. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






14. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






15. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






16. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






17. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






18. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






19. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






20. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






21. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






22. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






23. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






24. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






25. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






26. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






27. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






28. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






29. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






30. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






31. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






32. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






33. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






34. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






35. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






36. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






37. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






38. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






39. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






40. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






41. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






42. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






43. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






44. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






45. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






46. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






47. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






48. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






49. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






50. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active